Harold Pinter: A Night Out : A Study in the Political ConnotationsAnd the Abuse of Power

Harold Pinter’s A Night Out is a significant but rarely produced piece of drama. Therefore, there is very little criticism to support or contradict my argument. The reason why I chose to do my essay on this particular play is to open doors for academic research and to try and make it an equal to its sister plays. I will raise questions and topics to prove the play is worth the readers’ time and effort and that A Night Out is a sharp piece of political theatre. Although at first glance it is a simple enough story, a straightforward tale of the nasty consequences of motherly love when it is pushed to the limit, on deeper inspection, a more far reaching and complex analysis of the abuse of power can be observed. The play offers a variety of themes, including: interpersonal power struggles, failed attempts at communication, antagonistic relationships, the threat of impending or past violence, the struggle for survival or identity, domination and submission, politics, lies and verbal, physical, psychological and sexual abuse. The prevailing theme in the play is the abuse of power: powerful parties oppressing weaker ones, and the results of the oppressed party looking for a vent in someone even weaker than themselves.

Anton Nyström's Defense of Homosexuality

In 1919 Anton Nyström became the first person in Sweden to publish a comprehensive defense of homosexuality. He believed that its classification as a mental illness was erroneous and that Sweden's law against homosexual sex was both irrational and cruel. Nyström was a physician whose work in the medical area dealt primarily with dermatology, psychiatry and human sexuality; however he was also a prolific historian, who took a staunchly anti-Christian view in his analysis of how Christianity affected European culture, especially in the area of sexual morality. In fact, much of Nyström's medical texts dealing with human sexuality consisted of anti-Christian cultural and historical commentary. The object of this "C-uppsats" is to analyze Nyström's pamphlet, Om Homosexualitet och Hermafroditi: Belysning af Missförstådda Existenser and illustrate how its defensive structure was consistent with the pattern used by the author in his other books and articles on human sexuality. Specifically, that irrational and neurotic Christian beliefs caused both mental and physical suffering and were the source of deleterious forms of morality. Additionally, this paper will also show that the solution Nyström had for the problem of negative and erroneous attitudes towards homosexuality was to replace the sodomitic view of homosexuality with one based upon a more rational and naturalistic belief system, the basis of which could be found in the pre-Christian cultures of Europe, most especially in Greece. This new conception was to be constructed primarily out of historical example and cultural analyses. For Nyström, history writing was used both as a weapon to fight the source of negative attitudes towards homosexuality, as well as a tool that could be used to build a positive cultural model which would be beneficial for homosexuals.

ARBETSRELATERADE STRESSFAKTORER FÖR SJUKSKÖTERSKOR INOM AKUTSJUKVÅRDEN Litteraturöversikt

Bakgrund: Arbetsrelaterad stress hos sjuksköterskor bidrar till hög andel sjukskrivningar. Inom akutsjukvården så är arbetstempot ofta högre än inom andra delar av sjukvården och omsättningen av patienter är stor. Sjuksköterskor som arbetar inom akutsjukvården är mer utsatta för stress. För att hantera stress så kan copingstrategier användas. Syfte: Syftet är att ta reda på vilka stressfaktorer som påverkar sjuksköterskans hälsa inom akutsjukvården, samt vilka copingstrategier som kan användas för att hantera dessa. Metod: Litteraturöversikt med tolv kvalitativa samt kvantitativa vetenskapliga artiklar som berör sjuksköterskan inom akutsjukvården, arbetsrelaterade stressfaktorer samt copingstrategier. Resultat: Det finns ett antal arbetsrelaterade stressfaktorer som bidrar till ohälsa och lidande för sjuksköterskan inom akutsjukvården. Copingstrategier som stöttning av kollegor, avlastande samtal, genomgång av verksamheten och mindfulness, bidrar till att den arbetsrelaterade stressen blir hanterbar och att hälsa uppnås Slutsats: Stressfaktorer som brist på sjuksköterskor, dödsfall eller sexuella övergrepp på barn, våld och hot från patienter och anhöriga, samt brister i arbetsmiljön bidrar till arbetsrelaterad stress. Copingstrategier kan hjälpa att motverka den stress som uppstår. Men för att copingstrategier ska fungera så är det viktigt att använda sig av de strategier som finns och att tid samt möjlighet finns på arbetsplatsen att utföra dessa.